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Convert links into clickable hyperlinks

Description

A function to change an email address or URL into a clickable HTML hyperlink using eregi_replace.

The code

<?php



function makeClickableLinks($text) {



  $text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',

    '<a href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

  $text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',

    '\\1<a href="http://\\2">\\2</a>', $text);

  $text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})',

    '<a href="mailto:\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

  

return $text;



}



// Usage



// Email address example

$text = "you@example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



echo "<br /><br />";



// URL example

$text = "http://www.example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



echo "<br /><br />";



// FTP URL example

$text = "ftp://ftp.example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



?> 

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